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I think that -- under the current circumstances of the battle for power in America, where the American people utterly fail to reward the people who model basic American values -- I would have made the same choice Biden did— pardon my son.
"To hell with the noble gestures, to demonstrate how a President ideally serves his office. I'm going to act where something important to me can actually be achieved: the rescue of the son I love. My son has been persecuted -- dealt with not to serve justice, but unjustly as part of an ugly struggle for power -- because he's the son of the President.
“Why shouldn't I, on the other side, make us of the powers I've got for another two months to rescue him from his persecutors, who have always chosen to be my enemies.”